A pair of guest performers made their debuts with the Pacific Symphony on Thursday night, one half the age of the other, neither of them old. Both own long and impressive résumés; the pianist’s didn’t ...

Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite, and Liszt's Piano Concerto No 1 Three centuries of music on the next broadcast by The Phoenix Symphony. Katharina Wincor conducts ...

In the week that the Minnesota Orchestra has unveiled its slightly truncated Sommerfest season, the festival’s artistic director, Andrew Litton, is visiting to conduct a flashy and exhilarating ...

Romantics aren’t customarily shy about expressing their feelings. And such was definitely the case with classical composers of the romantic era. As the 19th century went on, much of the music grew ...

Byron Janis deserves to be getting some attention. In the years around 1960 he had a tremendous career, propelled by an eager, razor-sharp virtuosity much like that of his sometime mentor, Vladimir ...

It took Franz Liszt 26 years to compose his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat Major. But his long years of off-and-on composition paid off. The work, which is said to have been modeled ...

Stephen Hough’s latest CD has obviously been issued to tie-in with the Liszt bicentenary celebrations. But it’s actually Hough’s performance of the Grieg concerto (which Liszt famously read at sight ...

Thursday`s concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was the first in my experience in which the oldest piece of music on the program was the one receiving its world premiere. The score in question ...